Old Kwikasair SARs

Ol' mate Terry has come through again.............

here are 2 more pics of 7KA156, aka the SAR, and one of the early outside post vans ontop of Spring hill on the midlands (highest point on the north/ south road)
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and 7KA156 in the Merino st yard with the very first air ride trailer in Tasmania.


I think these 2 came after the T650
3KA951 on the right and 3KA952 on the left shot on thier first arrival at the Merino st yard.



Heres a shot of 3KA951 I took abck in about 1990



And to my suprise he also handed me these



A set of 15 (three of each depot) coasters in a boxset

looking at the fleet no's tell's that 951 and 952 came from the distrubition fleet,maybe TNT express on the mainland and as such would not have been part of kaa linehaul fleet , from what I can remember , when I started driving linehaul for Comet they had no's in the 180's and then as all prime mover's where owned by TNT fleet and leased to each division nightly, they progressed up the numerical order , when I finished we where in the high 380'sand that was from 1985 thru to 1993.
Squeak
thinking more about it they (951 and 952) may have come from the sydney fleet of TNT express and did Syd Canberra Syd at night and local thru the day

Thanks for that info Squeak very much appreciated

Hey everyone,just signed up as i have always had interests in kwikasair trucks as growing up holidaying at my grandmothers as a kid in Murrurundi.My grandma lived across the road from the changeover station.I can still remember when it was first TNT then kwikasair and comet.Being truck mad I took plenty of photos over my childhood,so if anyone is interested in me posting some old photos please let me know.cheers Richie!!!!!

G,day mate welcome to the forum!

i thing you will find that everyone here loves truck pic's

Do I want to see more KAA pics.............hmmm.............Does a bear shi.........um........Hell yeah I do

sweet,will break out the old albums and get um on.asap!!!!

Welcome Richie.
Where's the photo's
Just love those overnighters!
Craig

hey craig,might be couple of days or so.Have to get them scanned in.never really done this kind of stuff much,little rusty

welcome richie...more (photos) the merrier . werkhorse there were 24 volt start and run 8v71n's in 1966 with the manufacturers bottle company kw 925 r (seattle) long hood rigs. ....just a guess ...the sar 24 start and run was to do (maybe) with the cold tassie climate?.....